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The Cryosphere, Geophysics and Remote Sensing group is housed within the Geosciences Department at Boise State University, and focuses on answering scientific questions about the snow and ice covered areas of the world (the Cryosphere) research includes quantifying the spatial variability of snow properties using ground-based microwave radar and snow micropenetrometry, improving estimates of snow properties from airborne and satellite-based radar, detection of oil spills under sea ice with radar, quantifying lateral flow of water within the snowpack, and detection of avalanches with infrasonics.
The cryoGARS Lab encompasses both Dr. Ellyn Enderlin's and Dr. HP Marshall's labs. Dr. Enderlin's lab focuses on understanding the response of glaciers and ice sheets to past, present, and future climate change. Dr. Marshall's lab focuses on spatial variability in snow and its effect on remote sensing, snow hydrology, and snow avalanches.
Current News & Announcements
Current News & Announcements
Researchers from Marshall’s CryoGARS lab snow trenches in the Idaho mountains
Boise State Team Gathers Critical Snow Data in Idaho Mountains
Boise State Team Gathers Critical Snow Data in Idaho Mountains
Every winter, thousands of Idahoans wake up and check the snow levels at Bogus Basin. The ski resort, located 20 miles from downtown Boise, regularly posts photos of its snow marker, an upright measuring stick on top of a small platform. Every evening, staff come out and brush the platform clean so the tally can begin anew. (Click here to continue reading on Boise State News)
Ellyn Enderlin is among 400 nationally honored early career scientists for her work with NASA in 2024. She is among the first Boise State University staff honored by this award.
Ellyn Enderlin makes BSU history, honored with the PECASE award
Ellyn Enderlin makes BSU history, honored with the PECASE award
Today, President Biden awarded nearly 400 scientists and engineers the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers early in their careers.
Established by President Clinton in 1996, PECASE recognizes scientists and engineers who show exceptional potential for leadership early in their research careers. (Click here to continue reading in the Whitehouse Archives)
HP Marshall and Grant Statham discuss snow modeling, avalanche forecasting and warning, and other snow science topics for Skredpodden, a podcast dedicated to discussing science.
ISSW special edition EP14 - The merge between science and practise. A talk with Grant Statham and HP Marshall
ISSW special edition EP14 - The merge between science and practise. A talk with Grant Statham and HP Marshall
ISSW is a melting pot and a meeting place where scientist and practitioners meet. In this talk we discuss how science transform into practise. Grant Statham works for parks Canada and is in may ways the founding father of the modern avalanche warning service. In the studio we also have HP Marshall from Boisie state university. He is an associate professor and use a range of methods to try to understand the physics of snow. (click here to listen on skredpodden).
3 part series made by BSU's Elijah Zeller and Alton Dills.
Melting Point: CryoGARS in BSU Media
Melting Point: CryoGARS in BSU Media
BSU media students Elijah Zeller and Alton Dills tag along with CryoGARS in the lab and in the field to document their purpose and data. Interviewees HP Marshall, Ellyn Enderlyn, Ibrahim Alabi, and Coleman Kane discuss what CryoGARS is all about and how their personal journeys have lead them to spend their time studying the Cryosphere. Click here for the full 3 part series.
CryoGARS students and researchers perform measurements in a snow pit as part of a NASA SnowEx teaching and learning day in Grand Mesa, Colorado.
SnowSchool Spans the States
SnowSchool Spans the States
Imagine young students bundling up in winter clothing, strapping on snowshoes, and trekking to a site with thick snowpack where a volunteer instructor cuts out a refrigerator-sized block of snow. If the block stays coherent, the instructor asks the kids to jump on it until it fails, making them tumble into a flurry of snow. Together, the teacher and students measure the density and dimensions of the snow block to calculate its weight, which can be nearly as heavy as a car. By experiencing this mini avalanche, the students might begin to fathom what a real one might feel like. (click here to continue reading on EOS).
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